Earlier this year, producers of "Glee" asked patients of Children's Hospital L.A. and their parents if they'd like to participate in an upcoming episode. Arroyo-Smiley enthusiastically accepted the invitation.

"Grayson is a very outspoken, outgoing boy," said his mother, Michelle Arroyo. "He is the ultimate negotiator ... It was such a great experience."

Morrison hasn't been told that OCHSA, from which he graduated in the mid 1990s, has packed its Symphony Hall with student-fans of the show for live shot during the red carpet special on KNBC-TV/4. So please don't tell him if you bump into him this weekend, OK?

As a measure of how deep Morrison's connections to his alma mater run, consider this: With his extra ticket to the Emmys, he's taking Ralph Opacic, OCHSA founder and Morrison's mentor during high school and since.

“I'm rather sure that he'd have had no problem finding a date if he'd wanted to,” Opacic said Friday. “But he's like a part of our family. He's really like a son to us.”

Cutler was one of a couple dozen OCHSA students who gathered to watch the finale at the house of Ralph Opacic, the founder of OCHSA, a performing arts school/powerhouse in Santa Ana that began as a low-budget choir class at Los Alamitos High.